May 2012
Meh. That bowl of ramen was totally unsatisfying.
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“WARNING: CISSEXISM AND HETEREOSEXISM
[…]Lesbians and gays need to stop having...”
– gaynotqueer (via reality-is-evil)
SO NOW I’M STRAIGHT
BUT I’M NOT A BOY OR A GIRL
HOW DOES THAT SHIT EVEN WORK
(via thefullmetalbitch)
Those people exist in SpecialSnowflakeLand, where the meanings of words as they have been accepted by the rest of the multiverse simply do not apply, and words...
April 2012
widdershinsgirl:
It is very hard not to think of what Cathy Brennan is currently doing to me as “hunting down for the kill.” She is systematically infringing on all of my online spaces, falsely attacking me as a liar and spreading my photo around. I am not a liar. Cathy Brennan, however, is exploiting her privilege heavily as an attorney to attack, harm and intimidate me.
I actually find it...
The Center of the Milky Way Tastes Like...
xariltngraxe:
Astronomers searching for the building blocks of life in a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have concluded that it tastes vaguely of raspberries and smells like rum. The unanticipated discovery follows years of work by astronomers who trained their 30m radio telescope on the enormous ball of dust and gas in the hope of spotting complex molecules that are vital for...
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RENT
i-am-river:
I’ve been seeing a lot of RENT (movie) posts and a fair number of them are coming from people I follow (and who follow me) that identify as both cisgender and heterosexual. So, I felt the need to share one of my RENT (stage) stories.
I was in college when RENT made its Broadway debut. I and another friend actually saw it and she, eventually, purchased the album. Back in Heartland,...
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Being trans is neither rare nor a disorder.
southcarolinaboy:
widdershinsgirl:
http://www.bilerico.com/2012/04/being_transgender_is_not_a_rare_disorder.php#.T55jKnHxRHQ.twitter
(yes, yes, Bilerico).
Seriously, when a condition affects at least .25% of the population, you really cannot call it “rare”.
The comments, LORD. You can’t read anything and look at the damned comments. When am I going to learn? Why do people have to bring out...
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bittergrapes replied to your post: So, how do you wear a headscarf?
scarfsweethoney.com/p/h…
OK, thank you for demonstrating how unimaginative I can be when my brain decides it wants to get stuck in gear! :D So many styles!
The Pagan Community on Tumblr Facebook Group. →
pagan-posts:
earthmagick:
For those who have a Facebook I have created a group on there for us here in the Pagan community on Tumblr to discuss issues brought up in the community on here as well as a general place to talk. :)
This was actually discussed before with a few others and then just recently so I finally decided to make one for us. I’m still working on a better description and a note...
So, how do you wear a headscarf?
You know, the hijabi kind? I’m doing some investigation into wrapped and draped garments.
OK, Tumblr, slow it down! I've gone back 71 pages...
tal9000:
ellierantsforever:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
desire4destruction:
scientific—-hooliganism:
scar-lip:
the-last-secret-garden:
beaverbunnydelight:
journalmoore:
thefullmetalbitch:
shemalepolice:
pictured above: radfem transphobia inflated to the point of paranoid delusion
CRY MOAR RADFEMS
WE NEEEEEEEED YOUR TEARS FOR OUR MARTINIS
pukestains
Excuse me, I have to go...
tal9000:
“There was a little Indian girl who wanted to get her doll’s hair done. She bought a light skinned doll with green eyes and caramel hair. Unfortunately I was having a hard time getting the style right because it was thin, then her dad says “why didn’t you get a doll that looks like you?!” And then the little girl whispers to me that she doesn’t like the dark hair dolls. The majority of...
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Cisbians complain about trans lesbians posting...
tal9000:
and yet join all the other cis queers in spamming the #transgender tag with cis people.
Oh, really? Well, let’s see how much I can add to their pain…
Awesome. Cathy (bug) Brennan has decided to start...
polerin:
After saying using the wrong name is as bad as misgendering.
This might be.. “fun”. I’m curious what else she wants to drag up.
I’m betting she’s going to try to drag up other pre-transition info.
This is what happens when you stand up to a transphobe. This is what happens when you stand up for another trans woman.
Fuck her.
I’m trans. I’m proud. I know who the fuck I am, and...
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One of my favorite things about being trans
ellendjneres:
Is that I finally feel beautiful.
For almost all of jr. high, high school and the years after I hated the way I looked. I hated my body, I hated my hair, I hated the way my face looked, I hated the way I moved. I was miserable. It affected not only the way I saw myself, but also the way I interacted with everyone else. I would go entire days where I would do my best to not...
If trans* women truely reep the benefits of male...
polerin:
alexandraerin:
freedominwickedness:
southcarolinaboy:
ellierantsforever:
queernonymoose:
Then how come they don’t:
Get access to healthcare or hospitals, and have actually been denied access to hospital care.
Get access to insurances.
Oh yeah insurances don’t cover hormones unless you’re cis and “in need” due to a drop in hormone levels.
A trans* girl in Germany was locked...
Not sure if you haven't figured it out by now,...
genderbitch:
gcvsa:
amydentata:
blackenedbutterfly:
gcvsa:
[…] OK, I’m going to assume this is true, because I feel good about trusting what’s being said here, based on my own experience you know, actually being part of this fuckknob’s person’s paranoid fantasies. It is my professional opinion as Gemma that this Tabitha has got some serious personality disorder shit going on and probably...
COMPLEXXX IDENTITIEZ
boredangry:
brbnightmares:
After learning so much from the personal exploration/expression of trans**&!#$ masculine people and the feminists who compete for them, I’ve embarked on a journey to embody a gender identity that promises to be the most challenging, confusing, and REALITY-SHREDDING ever.
You thought blush + moustache, or body-builder + tutu, or xHARDxCORExCRUST dachsund owner,...
How many cis people does it take to change a...
transfeminism:
amydentata:
None. Why can’t you just accept your lightbulb the way it is?
How many trans people does it take to change a lightbulb?
Only one, but they’ll need a note from two doctors.
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Speaking of outdoorsy things...backpack troubles
I have been meaning for years to replace my main backpack, a late 1990’s model Lowe Alpine Contour IV 90+15 with a Duluth Pack Monarch #4 (and a lighter load, but that’s another story), but the expense is still not high on my list of priorities. On a whim last winter, I picked up a new backpack at TJ Maxx for $35 (how can you pass that up?). It’s a Kelty Coyote 4500W in a pretty...
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The funniest thing happened to me today.
I finally got around to sewing a replacement button on my red Woolrich Stag Jacket, which has been missing a button for several years now (because I can actually be that lazy when I put my mind to it…I just forgot how to do a button proper, like, well it’s a long story), and when I put it on to test the new button, my wrists ran into my breasts before the button made it to the button...
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femmefilth:
Download Whipping Girl as free PDF + epub
windsdarkpoem:
transradical:
I normally wouldn’t post links to download pirated content, but the message of Julia Serano’s magnificent first book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity is so important for every woman (trans or cis) to read that I’m breaking my rule.
If you consider yourself a...
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[TW for trangst] Being trans makes you apologetic.
cocksucking-accent:
(AKA “I should be doing homework but this really needs to be said and I didn’t stick it in my proposal because it felt like whining and I couldn’t find a proper place to put it but this has got to be out there somewhere.”)
It does. It really does.
It starts the very first time you realize you aren’t “normal,” and you turn to your first person and tell then that maybe, you...
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Not sure if you haven't figured it out by now,...
notallthathappy:
Yes, my partner Tabi runs ohno-zombees/appropriately-inappropriate/ptsdreamy.
Well, then fuck the both of you sideways with sandpaper buttplugs, too. Your partner is an asshole. I don’t really care what either of you has to say at this point, or what problems either of you do or do not have. Your partner is a fucking asshole, and you are an even bigger asshole for...
Not sure if you haven't figured it out by now,...
notallthathappy:
gcvsa:
blackenedbutterfly:
ptsdreamy/ohno-zombees/appropriately-inappropriate are all the same person. ohno-zombees has admitted to being appropriately-inappropriate a) http://tinyurl.com/852prbc b) http://ptsdreamy.tumblr.com/post/21864361801/hi-you-dont-know-who-i-am-but-rest-assured-i-wont However, ohno-zombees and ptsdreamy are the same person. let’s revisit a)...
Not sure if you haven't figured it out by now,...
amydentata:
blackenedbutterfly:
gcvsa:
[…] OK, I’m going to assume this is true, because I feel good about trusting what’s being said here, based on my own experience you know, actually being part of this fuckknob’s person’s paranoid fantasies. It is my professional opinion as Gemma that this Tabitha has got some serious personality disorder shit going on and probably requires psychiatric...
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When someone gets in the elevator and clicks a...
genderbitch:
polerin:
alexandraerin:
deliciouskaek:
talldarkbishoujo:
prothy-the-prothean:
whatshouldbinghamtoncallme:
Because 2/3 is such a tough walk.
Or… I… prefer taking elevators because I hurt my knees pretty bad when I was in high school, making it really hard to get up and down some stairs.
Soooooooooooo yeah. Let’s not with the “JUST TAKE THE STAIRS, LAZY”.
Yeah no...
Also, please take note: it is impossible to be a...
freedominwickedness:
gcvsa:
freedominwickedness:
gcvsa:
autiecommie:
IMPOSSIBLE. Seeing that most of the attacks against people with disabilities are waged via AUSTERITY MEASURES.
No, it is not impossible to be a libertarian and also be against ableism. My life is the proof of that, and I find the assertion of something which contradicts my reality to be offensive. Libertarianism is...
southcarolinaboy:
i used to be a boy: challenging trans-normativity
bittergrapes:
purplegoesbothways:
sissyboi:
beraloyo:
flayotters:
My friend, upon hearing me say “i was a boy at the time,” decided to intervene.
“You were being read as a boy anyway,” she said.
“No,” i defended, “i was a boy once. There was a time when that was true.”
Yes! I used to be a boy too. Not everyone’s...
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“Trans people are the experts in trans lives. So cis the fuck down and shut the...”
– tal9000, 26 April 2012
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“It follows that a frontier must be drawn between the area of private life and...”
– Isaiah Berlin, “Two Concepts of Liberty” (1958)
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What is Trans* Repro Justice?
transreprojustice:
A lot of people when they hear the terms “prochoice”, “reproductive rights” or even “reproductive justice” only think of abortion, but this view is myopic in my opinion. “Reproducing” encompasses many things which includes the right to choose to have children (or give birth and choose adoption), to choose to not have children right now, and to choose to never have children....
southcarolinaboy:
gcvsa:
tal9000:
widdershinsgirl:
blindtoph:
I can’t imagine what life would have been for me had I been born today. A gender “non-conforming” girl, who had autism, a typically male diagnosis, who hated wearing dresses, who derided and ridiculed the inane gender roles pushed on her. Would someone have told me that I wanted to be a boy? Would they have implanted this...
Please, please, please, before you criticise me...
Also, please take note: it is impossible to be a...
widdershinsgirl:
gcvsa:
autiecommie:
IMPOSSIBLE. Seeing that most of the attacks against people with disabilities are waged via AUSTERITY MEASURES.
No, it is not impossible to be a libertarian and also be against ableism. My life is the proof of that, and I find the assertion of something which contradicts my reality to be offensive. Libertarianism is about maximising liberty to all...
Also, please take note: it is impossible to be a...
tal9000:
gcvsa:
autiecommie:
IMPOSSIBLE. Seeing that most of the attacks against people with disabilities are waged via AUSTERITY MEASURES.
No, it is not impossible to be a libertarian and also be against ableism. My life is the proof of that, and I find the assertion of something which contradicts my reality to be offensive. Libertarianism is about maximising liberty to all individuals,...
